Tag

Sam Smolenski

Alfeld gets the chocolates

By Thomas H. Hicks · 22 March 2026

Encouraged by the late Katie Cox and his daughter’s partner Aaron Swain, Murray Alfeld renewed his driving licence this season and got back into the winning groove with Chocolate Angus’s (Royal Aspirations) win at Methven today. Alfeld last held a licence ten years ago and his last winning drive was Sunny Yankee at Banks Peninsula […]

New Zealand

In foal, in form

By Harnesslink · 6 December 2025

Most horsemen would agree a mare in foal can take her form to a new level and it appears the case with eight year old I Dream Of Jeannie (Pegasus Spur) who took out the $20,000 Fresh Choice Geraldine Trotters Cup at Orari today. “You’d have to say that after her last two runs,” driver […]

Sam Smolenski | Harnesslink